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by mgleizer

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At boot time I am getting a message:
"smr gdf is not found. Autocheck cancelled."
Then Welcome screen comes. At this point boot hangs often. Sometimes boot proceeds to show all icons on desktop but not as picture icons but as frames only. After one or more full shut downs the mashine finally start normally.
Disk full defrag helps for a couple days. Then the porblem comes back.
The computer is HP PC m7420n, 2G memory, 300G HD, XP Pro.
Please, any thoughts or suggestions.
Mike.

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by oh smeg

If you don't already have one Iolo makes a decent one called System Mechanic which will allow you a 30 Day Trial available here

http://tinyurl.com/yuuau5

Just make sure that you [b]Do Not Run[/b] the Look for Duplicate Files Option as this can destroy your OS by removing files with the same name in different folders that are necessary to the Windows OS. Everything else is OK to run though.

Col

by ermiec

I had the same problem. I had unistalled System Mechanic 7. I reinstalled it and resolved the problem.

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